Have You Heard Of Egg Heat Treating? For Incubation

[jm93030]

there is this site whitehousequail.com
where I found about heat treating the eggs

Heat TreatmentAnother one of our quail raising techniques that sets us above the rest is called Heat Treatment.
Heat treatment is a process which we can put eggs through to improve odds of hatching after they are shipped.
The process is roughly:
1. Bring the eggs to incubation temperatre
2. Advance the embryos to a more hardy stage
3. Bring down to below room temperature so they are trapped in this stage of development.

 

[mhwc56]

i'd read that on their site too but have NO clue about it.Hope someone knows more and responds.

 

[aprophet]

Almost sounds like deformities waiting to happen to me when I have been hatching/ incubating and my bator got cold then turned back on My hatch rate was not as good as when the bator stayed the same temp the whole hatch . For shipped quail eggs I have always ran 50-70% hatch rate anything over 50% on shipped eggs I am thankful for try shipped silkies or seramas sometimes LOL the closer they are shipped from the better the hatch rate!

 

[shelleyd2008]

It depends on when the eggs cool, if they are very early in development it will make them go dormant. There's a thread on this over in the incubating and hatching forum, someone was going to test it. I don't know how it turned out.